S. Korea summons Japan diplomat in protest over claim to islets

S. Korea summons Japan diplomat in protest over claim to islets

Hideo Suzuki, a minister of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, leaves South Korea's Foreign Ministry in Seoul on April 25, 2017, after being summoned by the ministry in protest over Japan's fresh claim to sovereignty over a pair of rocky islets in the Sea of Japan. The islets, which are known as Dokdo to South Koreans and Takeshima to Japanese, have been under South Korean control for decades. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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